Why does peace so often feel like the absence of chemistry? When love has always meant uncertainty, mixed signals and emotional highs, a nervous system learns to mistake anxiety for passion, and calm can feel strangely unfamiliar. A note on intensity, healing and the kind of love that feels like home, because anxiety can be intense, and so can peace, but only one of them allows love to grow.

Paris, October 2025. Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton. Photo by Laura Achrem.

Every piece of clothing begins as someone’s time. Before it reaches us, a garment passes through hands that choose, weave, cut and sew, and the better it is made, the less we see the making. A note on slow fashion, craft, and learning to see the people behind every seam.

Illustration made for Notes on Eternity, October 2026. Art direction by Laura Achrem.

Can a perfume really be ruined by another person? Its formula never changes, yet one scent can carry comfort, longing or grief, depending on who wore it and when. A note on scent, memory, and why the perfume never changed. We did.

Tokyo, March 2026. Fueguia 1833 Store in Ginza Six. Photo by Laura Achrem.

A summer day on Mykonos on 35mm film, from the windmills and the painted houses of Little Venice to a quiet terrace in the hills, where the sea turns a deeper blue. It ends in the evening, under a string of lights.

Mykonos, August 2024. Shot on 35mm film, by Laura Achrem.

What stays from a shoot once the final images are chosen? Polaroids taken between frames, in my studio, in April 2021, with Marlena Janeczko wearing Achrem Studios.

Warsaw, April 2021. Marlena Janeczko in Achrem Studios. Polaroids by Laura Achrem.

A summer day at Marina Piccola, seen through 35mm film. Striped umbrellas, turquoise water, the red walls of Bagni da Maria and the Faraglioni on the horizon. No story beyond the image: only light, colour and the slow rhythm of the sea.

Capri, July 2025. Shot on 35mm film, by Laura Achrem.